Lumber Company Grows Trees That Smile With Massive Grin for Oregon Drivers
Years ago, Hampton Lumber company decided to replant the hill's trees with early-changing larch in the shape of a smiley face.
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Lost for 97 Years, Rediscovered Magnolia Tree Spurs Hope for its Restoration in Haiti
The northern Haiti magnolia (Magnolia emarginata) has been missing since scientists first discovered it in 1925
Here's an Interactive Map that Will Allow You to Plan a Precise Fall Foliage Road Trip
A Smokey Mountains tourist website has created an interactive map that allows you to see how the leaves change color across the USA.
Forest Group is Saving Scottish Habitat 'One Sausage at a Time'
As part of its work, Cairngorms Connect is looking to grow new patches of native Caledonian woodland, 99% of which has been lost.
Botanical Researchers Are 'Thrilled' After Discovering an Oak Tree Once Thought to Be Extinct
A lone tree standing about 30 feet-tall in Big Bend Nat'l Park is an oak once thought to be extinct (Q. tardifolia) for over a decade.
Tree Growing Nonprofit is Sprouting Entrepreneurs With Unique Training and Lots of Trees for Madagascar
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One of Britain's Oldest and Greatest Oak Trees Gets $7,000 Hug from Community
A 700-1,000-year-old sessile oak, known as the Capon Tree, was awarded a grant of £7,000, or around $8,500, for a caregiving regime
Thousands of Acres of Koala Haven Forest to Come Under Logging Bans in New South Wales
The parcel is just one part, though key, of the 315,000 hectares that a coalition of conservation organizations is hoping to protect forever.
Tree-Loving Brits Crowdsource a National 'Ancient Tree Inventory' - 200,000 Unique Trees
The Woodland Trust maintains an app as well as printed sheets to allow anybody to register the location and characteristics of ancients.
The Largest Landfill in Latin America has Been Turned into a Mangrove Forest
Planting 24 acres of mangroves at a time, today the forest stretches out more than 120 acres and is the largest mangrove area of the bay.
India Succeeds in Reducing Emissions Rate by 33% Over 14 Years, on Track to Meet all Targets
The measurement in the report is referred to as "emissions intensity" which describes a measure of emissions against a ratio of GDP.
Reforestation is Difficult: But Local Farmers of NGO Green Again Madagascar Are on Top of It
Out in the ultra-rural jungles of eastern Madagascar, something is happening that all climate-conscious investors should take note of.
Loss of Climate-Crucial Mangrove Forests Has Slowed to Near-Negligible Amount Worldwide, Report Hails
In the last ten years, mangrove loss has slowed to just 0.04% year over year, while countries are beginning to take protecting them seriously
Leslie Dart has Planted 372,290 Trees Across Canada Over the Past 3 Summers and Inspired So Many Others
The video's author, Leslie Dart, doesn't have a career in forestry and plants trees only because it pays extra, and it's incredibly rewarding
Finally Rid of Invasive Shrubs, Scientists Use Lichen to Regrow the Celtic Rainforest in Loch Lomond, Scotland
The hope is to encourage massive propagation to give the forests in Trossachs the tangled emerald mess that makes them so fantastical.
This Monkey Was Already Endangered When Discovered in 2003-but is Now on the Up and Up
The kipunji was only discovered in 2003 living on the slopes and forests and mountains within Kitulo National Park in Tanzania.
New Tallest Tree in Asia-a 335-Foot Cypress Shows There's Plenty Left in the World to Discover
Researchers at Peking University working in Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon Nature Reserve have recorded a Himalayan cypress at 335 feet tall.
Genetic Lineage of Thousand-Year-Old Oak Trees Seed an Experimental 'Super Forest'
Some trees are 1,000 years old, and foresters hope their ancient genetic legacy will pass into the forests through saplings grown from acorns
Some of the Best National Parks Where You Can Avoid the Summer Crowds
Beat the heat and the crowds while enjoying the peace and tranquility of nature, rather than suffering full campgrounds and traffic jams.
10-year-old's Backyard Discovery Reveals 'Mind-blowing' Interaction Between Plants and Insects
2 years ago, little Hugo Deans from Pennsylvania found some red-colored seeds on the ground by an ant's nest in his backyard. Hugo was excited—he didn't know ants collected seeds, and his excitement grew when he showed his father Andrew, an entomologist at Penn State, who didn't know they did either. The two bug enthusiasts […]
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